From my experience in Ivy League labs, it's all about the lab ethanol supplies.
Just make sure to drink only the 98% or 99% pure ethanol, without any denaturing contaminants. And bring plenty of mixers, 'cause that stuff is wicked strong.
Parent is right about the ass-paddling and wet t-shirt contests, though.
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Get a used Thinkpad.
Lower energy usage. Recycled. Probably faster than the VIA. And you can beat a burglar to death with it.
Absolutely. To put some real numbers to on this, according to Sprint, the total capital expenditure for WiMax infrastructure is about 10 percent the cost of a comparable fiber or cable build-out.
Insightful comment, and almost entirely right. But you're forgetting something, too: hydrogen might not ignite at quite as low levels, but it is flammable over a MUCH wider range of concentration compared with gasoline.
My uncle is a rocket scientist. A couple decades ago, he was working on a NASA contractor test in Florida. One of the technicians was badly burned in a hydrogen fire. It was a hot day, and the tech walked right into the fire without seeing it. That doesn't happen with gasoline.
Especially since one of the most commonly suggested sources of stem cells are excess fertilized eggs from fertility treatments that are going to be destroyed anyway.
Leftover embryos from fertility treatments aren't just the most commonly used source of stem cells. They're the only source of embryonic stem cells used in any serious academic or clinical research. Religious right propoganda to the contrary, cells from aborted fetuses are unsuitable for myriad reasons.
[A number of files SCO claims to own] were written from scratch for Linux.... SCO also doesn't hold any copyrights to the BSD code [software developed at the University of California at Berkeley that SCO says contained copyrighted material that was passed on to Linux], nor is it actually in [SCO's version of Unix]. So SCO is wrong.
The [use of brackets to indicate editorial summary] throughout the [BusinessWeek interview with Linus] is a little [excessive]... I [really wonder] what the [uneditted transcript] looked like. For all we know, [Linus] could have said [bite me Darl you little weasel].
Remember that Intel as a company is doing just fine, thank you very much. In particular, the new Centrino line is without any serious competitors in the laptop space--it's specs are impressive, and it's making Intel money hand over fist.
New tech, if it works, ALWAYS trickles down to the civilian world.
Ha! That's what YOU think!
My 1970's work on Quantum Hyper-Boson Quasi-Magneto-Induction allows makes time travel practical, and should have won me the Nobel prize. But those bastards at the Pentagon will never let it see the light of day!
Seems it's a lot more complicated to build a network of 2000 boxes than it is to make a web page without broken img links
Most of us Slashdot readers have no idea what you're talking about. You see, the page renders beautifully in Internet Explorer...
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Great. You've just posted their real names on Slashdot. Just how hard do you think it is for vengeful spammers to connect those names to email addresses?
Riiiight. That's exactly how us Americans sign off when we talk on the phone.
"G'day, mate. Good on ya. Are we still on for the cricket world cup on Saturday? Make sure to throw an extra shrimp on the barbie, I'm bringing a sheila."
Yup--I noticed, too, that none of them were very familiar with Windows XP. And that's very bad news for the growth of Linux on the desktop.
In order to grow, we can't import Linux users from Neptune (though sometimes I wonder...). We have to appeal to people who are currently users of XP. And to do that we need to make the Linux experience as familiar as possible. How the fuck are they supposed to do that if they're not familiar with XP at all?
Will that entail making Linux into a "bland clone of Windows" in the UI department? Maybe. But that's already where Linux is headed. We may as well do it right.
Strains of new, antibiotic-resistant bacteria almost always come from intensive care units in North America. Not from family doctors overtreating strep throat.
The drugs do have a social cost. But how many here would deny them to their grandmother in the ICU?
...the New York Times ran a front-page article listing the "most important inventions" of the previous 100 years.
Number one on that list? Not the steam engine or the telegraph, the cotton gin or the McCormick reaper, or even newcomers like electric lights and the telephone. According to the New York Times, the most important invention of the previous century was chemical "frictionless" matches.
I suppose this decision makes a little more sense in a world where most homes and businesses are still heated by coal and lit by kerosene. (And yes, I know it is a bitch to light things with flint and steel.) But I wonder how much of this article will be considered laughable or just plain stupid in 100 years.
Joining an organization like the EFF is great--really. I'm a member, and you should be too. But if you really want to be effective in changing the policies that effect you, there are cheaper and better things you can do.
The refrain here on/. is that Big Evil Corporations do whatever they want. As a political scientists, I can tell you that's only half true. In general, big corporations and special interests only win on issues that are out of the public eye. In other words, issues members of congress don't get bothered about.
Forget all this stuff about emailing your representative--most (though not all!) members of congress ignore email, because they get so much of it. Snail mail is the traditional way to go here. However, academic studies have shown that faxes and phone calls to congressional members' Washington office are the most effective in influencing policy. A few short phone calls are a lot cheaper than a membership in the EFF. And what sort of a geek are you if you can't get your computer to send a fax?
So what the fuck are you waiting for? Find out who your Senators and Rep is, and pick up the phone.
Say, "My name is Joe Hacker, a I'm a constituent and regular Slashdot reader. I use the Linux operating system on my computer and I'm a member of the open source software community. I'm deeply concerned about digital rights issues. I want to know where Senator X / Rep. Y stands on these issues."
Force them to articulate an opinion, and ask them to send you a packet outlining the member's positions on digital rights issues, the Microsoft Anti-Trust action, online privacy, the DMCA, etc. I guarantee you that if only 10% of Slashdot readers had called up their elected representatives, 80% of the crappy legislation we have to deal with wouldn't have been passed in the first place.
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From my experience in Ivy League labs, it's all about the lab ethanol supplies.
Just make sure to drink only the 98% or 99% pure ethanol, without any denaturing contaminants. And bring plenty of mixers, 'cause that stuff is wicked strong.
Parent is right about the ass-paddling and wet t-shirt contests, though.
Get a used Thinkpad.
Lower energy usage. Recycled. Probably faster than the VIA. And you can beat a burglar to death with it.
What's not to like?
Be careful about releasing those monkeys!
That's nothing.
After a run-in with the hall's RA, one of the guys on my dorm broke into the closet where all the phone switching equipment was.
And routed every single call coming into the dorm into the offending RA's number.
Absolutely. To put some real numbers to on this, according to Sprint, the total capital expenditure for WiMax infrastructure is about 10 percent the cost of a comparable fiber or cable build-out.
My uncle is a rocket scientist. A couple decades ago, he was working on a NASA contractor test in Florida. One of the technicians was badly burned in a hydrogen fire. It was a hot day, and the tech walked right into the fire without seeing it. That doesn't happen with gasoline.
Leftover embryos from fertility treatments aren't just the most commonly used source of stem cells. They're the only source of embryonic stem cells used in any serious academic or clinical research. Religious right propoganda to the contrary, cells from aborted fetuses are unsuitable for myriad reasons.
Wrong. It's a civil trial. There is no such thing as "reasonable doubt" in civil cases; the standard is instead a preponderance of the evidence.
Most of us would pay more to pretend that Mostly Harmless was not part of the "trilogy"...
Dammit, Dave! by David Mamet
Best line: "You put my memory cards back right now you motherf*cker!"
'Blipverts may come / And blipverts may go / But the laziness upon which they breed is with us always.'
Actually, that's quite good; perhaps it was me who said it."
--Max Headroom, Newsweek , 20 April 1987
[A number of files SCO claims to own] were written from scratch for Linux.... SCO also doesn't hold any copyrights to the BSD code [software developed at the University of California at Berkeley that SCO says contained copyrighted material that was passed on to Linux], nor is it actually in [SCO's version of Unix]. So SCO is wrong.
The [use of brackets to indicate editorial summary] throughout the [BusinessWeek interview with Linus] is a little [excessive]... I [really wonder] what the [uneditted transcript] looked like. For all we know, [Linus] could have said [bite me Darl you little weasel].
Maybe Intel blew it, but they'll survive.
Remember that Intel as a company is doing just fine, thank you very much. In particular, the new Centrino line is without any serious competitors in the laptop space--it's specs are impressive, and it's making Intel money hand over fist.
New tech, if it works, ALWAYS trickles down to the civilian world.
Ha! That's what YOU think!
My 1970's work on Quantum Hyper-Boson Quasi-Magneto-Induction allows makes time travel practical, and should have won me the Nobel prize. But those bastards at the Pentagon will never let it see the light of day!
Most of us Slashdot readers have no idea what you're talking about. You see, the page renders beautifully in Internet Explorer...
Great. You've just posted their real names on Slashdot. Just how hard do you think it is for vengeful spammers to connect those names to email addresses?
Riiiight. That's exactly how us Americans sign off when we talk on the phone.
"G'day, mate. Good on ya. Are we still on for the cricket world cup on Saturday? Make sure to throw an extra shrimp on the barbie, I'm bringing a sheila."
In order to grow, we can't import Linux users from Neptune (though sometimes I wonder...). We have to appeal to people who are currently users of XP. And to do that we need to make the Linux experience as familiar as possible. How the fuck are they supposed to do that if they're not familiar with XP at all?
Will that entail making Linux into a "bland clone of Windows" in the UI department? Maybe. But that's already where Linux is headed. We may as well do it right.
The drugs do have a social cost. But how many here would deny them to their grandmother in the ICU?
Number one on that list? Not the steam engine or the telegraph, the cotton gin or the McCormick reaper, or even newcomers like electric lights and the telephone. According to the New York Times, the most important invention of the previous century was chemical "frictionless" matches.
I suppose this decision makes a little more sense in a world where most homes and businesses are still heated by coal and lit by kerosene. (And yes, I know it is a bitch to light things with flint and steel.) But I wonder how much of this article will be considered laughable or just plain stupid in 100 years.
--Gondwanaland for Gondwanans!--
Joining an organization like the EFF is great--really. I'm a member, and you should be too. But if you really want to be effective in changing the policies that effect you, there are cheaper and better things you can do. The refrain here on /. is that Big Evil Corporations do whatever they want. As a political scientists, I can tell you that's only half true. In general, big corporations and special interests only win on issues that are out of the public eye. In other words, issues members of congress don't get bothered about.
Forget all this stuff about emailing your representative--most (though not all!) members of congress ignore email, because they get so much of it. Snail mail is the traditional way to go here. However, academic studies have shown that faxes and phone calls to congressional members' Washington office are the most effective in influencing policy. A few short phone calls are a lot cheaper than a membership in the EFF. And what sort of a geek are you if you can't get your computer to send a fax?
So what the fuck are you waiting for? Find out who your Senators and Rep is, and pick up the phone.
Say, "My name is Joe Hacker, a I'm a constituent and regular Slashdot reader. I use the Linux operating system on my computer and I'm a member of the open source software community. I'm deeply concerned about digital rights issues. I want to know where Senator X / Rep. Y stands on these issues."
Force them to articulate an opinion, and ask them to send you a packet outlining the member's positions on digital rights issues, the Microsoft Anti-Trust action, online privacy, the DMCA, etc. I guarantee you that if only 10% of Slashdot readers had called up their elected representatives, 80% of the crappy legislation we have to deal with wouldn't have been passed in the first place.